Look Who's Coming to Dinner!
No fishing until the weekend so bored out of my skull! which sets me a dreaming - who past or present would you invite to dinner for (6) and why? Has to be fishing heros and heroines or just mates...
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Please, another bottle of wine in the garden, these famous types have run for cover and drinking me dry!-- Dr Barbus
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that I am planning is a Centrepin Reel Fishers' Banquet. I was thinking of F.W.K. Wallis (plus his young pals, pupils and acolytes on the Royalty, my tutors in turn when they were both elderly, Gordon...
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"From: Billy Lane, "Divine Swim", Heavenly Banks Avenue, Cloud Nine District, Anglers' Valhalla. To: Paul Boote Date: I don't know it and I don't really care. Dear Paul, Many thanks for your kind...
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Rob Yorke! Never heard of him until I had the misfortune to happen upon a a duff Sky programme called Reel Wars. The coarse angler was the dull but affable Steve Broad, the supposed game expert - one...
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Paul Your latest post on this thread and someones else's reminder on Other Fish Section reminded me. David Carl Forbes. By The Way, like the matchmen you have invited - they will knock some spots off...
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I was supprised to get an invite/ many thanks will have to ask my agent, if Steve Broad and co' are going im not as slip said who are they, SB is about as useless as an ashtray on a motor bike' not...
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Can I come to the "Ego's have landed Do" please Paul. You can talk about yourself, Leane can talk about herself and I can eat the food. Graham
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a MUCH bigger venue... Not on account of you, Graham, but to accommodate all the monsters, invited and uninvited, who'll turn up mob-handed, wielding their poorly whipped, matt-finish, little poles,...
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Who would I have for dinner other than Mr Smoked Pike and Mrs Carp Soup? Here comes the invites: 1. Leanne Jaynes, the Barbel Girl, because she has made me laugh with the way she has stirred things...
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I dont feel hungry now just had enough c--p on here i need a holiday . would of been fun thou with that line up
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I think this is a really tough one to answer but I think I'd like to invite people i've either enjoyed meeting in person or reading their books etc. So my table would seat 12 (me and 11 others): 1)...
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Interesting to see Martin Hooper featured. Good angler. I remember "bouncing" a new prototype blank built into a rod off Martin in the late 1980s. "Use it for a few weeks, then let me know what you...
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Just dragged it out of a cupboard and taken it out of its bag. I had written "1lb 12oz" on the blank in white ink between the butt-wrappings - very speculatively, I see now, it being an untested...
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Hey Paul, i have one of his specimen trotting rods, so light you dont realise its there half the time, You dont want Billy Lane for Xmas dinner mate, he,ll want 2 platefuls can remember fishing a...
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There would be others that I'd like to invite, just to have the pleasure of having met them. I've heard some great things written about people such as Mark Vials (mostly written by Terry Lampard),...
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My dinner list would consist of a few angling friends, most of whom i have met through BFW, great guys/Gals & great company too Claire can do the cooking ....j.w john walker
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"PJ Martin 11/12/06 1:04 pm Re: That rod There would be others that I'd like to invite, just to have the pleasure of having met them. I've heard some great things written about people such as Mark...
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to whom I used to talk at massive length, and who would brighten ANY angling get-together - John Sidley and Vic Gillings. How I wish they were still around.
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i've had the please of meeting Martin on a few occasions and I'm currently reading his book too. Like yourself, I've found him nothing but a perfect gentleman who is very confident about his fishing...
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